The Good Mother - Hardcover

Miller, Sue

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060155515 ISBN 13: 9780060155513

Publisher: Harper & Row, 1986

Synopsis

Recently divorced, Anna Dunlap has two passionate attachments: her daughter, four-year-old Molly, and her lover, Leo, the man who makes her feel beautiful -- and sexual -- for the first time. Swept away by happiness and passion, Anna feels she has everything she's ever wanted. Then come the shocking charges that would threaten her new love, her new "family" ... that force her to prove she is a good mother.

About this title

About the Author:

Sue Miller is the author of a number of successful novels, including While I Was Gone, Family Pictures, For Love, The Distinguished Guest, Inventing the Abbotts and The World Below. She lives in Boston.

From Library Journal:

Anna Dunlap, newly divorced, is shaping a life centered around her three-year-old daughter, Molly. Then Leo Cutter sparks a sexual responsiveness new to Annaherself the product of a circumspect New England family, frigid during her marriage to a man of similar temperament. Molly and Leo like each other, too, and Anna sees them as a loving family unituntil her ex-husband sues for custody, citing sexual activities that put his child at risk. The love affair is irrevocably changed, as Anna opens her life to a court-appointed psychiatrist and bends the truth to her lawyer's strategy. Anna's first-person narrative, with its skillfully interwoven flashbacks, creates foreboding as it builds to the drama of the hearing and its wrenching conclusion. Miller's first novel is a stunner: so emotionally true and cleanly written, its characters so wonderfully and fallibly human, its issues so painful. Michele Leber, Fairfax Cty. P.L., Va.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Harper & Row
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0060155515
• ISBN 13: 9780060155513
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 310